by Ed Hinerman | Feb 16, 2011 | conversion, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, universal life
What is your definition of permanent! First thing that comes to mind for me is something that never goes away. OK. I know the earth could blow up and then all bets are off when it comes to anything attached to the earth, but let’s assume that it doesn’t...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 15, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance
A long standing urban myth is that life insurance rates take a huge jump at age 50. Actually a spinoff of the myth for those in their 30’s is that it happens at 40, and for those in their 60’s at age 70, and so on. A little know fact is that under age 35...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 14, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, senior life insurance, term insurance, whole life
There is probably no age group market that is more sought after or more abused than the senior life insurance market. What a wake up call it was (several years ago) when I flew past 50 and started getting offers for life insurance for seniors. Being a life insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 14, 2011 | final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance, term insurance
Being over 50 myself I read that title and my mind immediately went to the thought that, “Well of course it has new meaning. We’re a lot closer to using it.” Whoa, admitted my own mortality there! But what I want to get at is the fact that the needs...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 12, 2011 | AIG, conversion, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
I’ve always been an advocate of buying a term life insurance length, or multiple term insurance policies that reflect your actual life insurance needs with different term lengths. Due to some recent changes in conversion options I am considering an amendment to...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 12, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, universal life
The life insurance industry made a big deal of the year 2000 and the impending monster changes in the term life insurance pricing that were just waiting for the ball to drop in Times Square. They even came up with a special name for the event, Triple X. The whole...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 10, 2011 | death benefit, insurance, life insurance
There is probably nothing that is sacred anymore with the federal government and almost every state government facing mounting budget deficits, loss of tax revenue and so on. I’m sure every level of government must have multiple committees whose sole job is to...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 8, 2011 | Anxiety, bipolar, bipolar disorder, insurance, life insurance
I was involved in an exchange on the Bipolar Disorder Forum of eHealthforum several months ago. A person had been declined for life insurance and wanted to know if that was just the reality of bipolar disorder or if someone knew how to navigate what was turning out to...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 5, 2011 | life insurance, pilot, private pilots
All right guys, you can take a break. Although you could certainly buy life insurance on Sunday the last thing you want is your friends knowing you were doing something more important than football. I already know how most of you feel about life insurance. If...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 3, 2011 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance
No, really!! That was the front page headline on and industry publication I get called Insurancenewsnet Magazine. Without even opening up the magazine I know where the rant is headed. Never in the history of estate planning has there been more opportunity to be as...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 1, 2011 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, Protective Life, rate increase, second to die insurance, universal life
I wrote an estate life insurance case 6 or so years ago that if you put a pencil to the numbers you would swear that the company had made a huge mistake. There was simply no feasible way for them to make a profit. The case was with Protective Life who, for a while,...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 31, 2011 | decline, insurance, life insurance
Not a day goes by that I don’t read some “how to” life insurance article that claims that being declined for life insurance is right up there with getting kicked out of the country club. You will just never be OK again! You will be black balled....
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 29, 2011 | estate taxes, guarantee, insurance, life insurance, universal life
In a post yesterday I insinuated that we may be entering the greatest two years in history for estate wealth building, estate wealth protection and wealth transfer. That statement still stands, but…. I asked Kevin Cox with Lincoln Financial to review the post in...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 28, 2011 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, second to die insurance
So when all of the estate tax and gifting laws shook out and got signed, two things really stood out. There were some very generous changes and, unless extended, they will only last two years. This could make for the largest two years transfer of wealth in history...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 27, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, pilot, private pilots
It hasn’t been that long since admitting that you were a student pilot or a flight instructor on a life insurance application was, well, might as well have been an admission that you were a bush pilot or crop duster. Most companies weren’t and actually...
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